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    7 months ago

    Define your terms before relying on platitudes. Mutability isn’t cleaner if we want composition, particularly in the face of concurrency. Being idiomatic isn’t good or bad, but patterned; not all patterns are universally desirable. The only one which stands up to scrutiny is efficiency, which leads to the cult of performance-at-all-costs if one is not thoughtful.